By Duncan Caillard, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
One of the most expensive series ever made, Chief of War largely benefited New Zealand’s production industry due to a struggling film and TV sector in Hawai'i.
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By Lucinda Chambers, PhD Candidate in Marine Bioacoustics, UNSW Sydney
Tracey Rogers, Professor Evolution & Ecology, UNSW Sydney
Leopard seals in Antarctica live solitary lives. But the simple patterns of their underwater song, akin to nursery rhymes, bring mates from across the seas.
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By Alexa Scarlata, Lecturer, Digital Communication, RMIT University
Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
Dennis Altman, Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
Gregory Ferris, Senior Lecturer, Media Arts & Production, University of Technology Sydney
Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Liz Giuffre, Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
Phoebe Hart, Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology
Rachel Williamson, Senior Tutor in English, University of Canterbury
Susan Hopkins, Senior Lecturer in Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy), University of the Sunshine Coast
Whether you like Nordic noir, horror, feisty feminists or gardening, our experts have rounded up the best of what’s new to streaming.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Hadi Rostami. © Kurdistan Human Rights Newtork (Beirut) – Iranian authorities used a “guillotine machine” to amputate fingers of three detained men in the late hours of July 30, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The three men, Hadi Rostami, 38, Mehdi Sharifian, 42, and Mehdi Shahivand, 29, had been convicted of theft after grossly unfair trials. An informed source told Human Rights Watch that the men were blindfolded, handcuffed, shackled, and transferred to the office for implementation of sentences, where four fingers of each detainee’s right hand…
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
What began as protests against fuel price hikes in Angola have escalated into deadly unrest across the country, with at least 22 people killed and more than 1,000 detained, prompting calls from the UN for restraint and urgent investigations into possible rights violations by security forces.
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By Guest Contributor
"While the Year of Return has eagerly welcomed Black Americans and diasporans to live in Ghana, it’s still important to understand how their presence can upend the lives of Ghanaians ..."
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By Tom Harper, Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London
The Motuo hydropower project will be four times the size of the gigantic Three Gorges dam, the next biggest hydropower project in the world.
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By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University
Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you’re stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst moments. Coincidence? Not even close.
Thousands of years of co-evolution have given dogs special ways to tune in to our voices, faces and even brain chemistry. From brain regions devoted to processing our speech to the “love hormone” or oxytocin…
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By Matthew Blackett, Reader in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University
After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicentre and across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jet plane.
In some local areas, such as in Russia’s northern Kuril Islands, tsunami waves reached heights of over three metres.…
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By John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, University of East Anglia
Water is at the heart of the disruption wrought by climate change. The seas, once seen as vast and stable, are now unpredictable and restless.
That tidy, looping diagram of the water cycle once pinned up in primary school classrooms – clouds, rivers, evaporation and rain – now reads more like a fragmented recollection than a dependable process. Human impact has cracked that once-stable loop wide open.
Sea levels inch upward year on year. Droughts grow more prolonged and severe. Rainfall becomes erratic and violent. What was once spoken of in future tense is now present…
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